Johann Schröder, a button maker, his wife Katharina, and children (Sophia, age 6; Katharina, age 4; Johann, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
On this ship, there are a number of families that settled in the Volga German colony of Beideck.
Orphan Maria Schröder (age 15) is recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 23 along with the Karl Rau family. The 1775 census of Beideck does not record a relationship between the Rau and Schröder families.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendants of this Schröder family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 23).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #185.
Brent Mai